Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing
…don’t institute policies against using AI tools).” Blanchard said his primary goal has always been to improve the lives of as many Python developers and users as possible and not to…
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Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines
…itself, seeding malicious packages to siphon credentials, hijack environments, or quietly maintain persistence within developer tooling. Developers who installed either affected version are being urged to act immediately. "If you have installed…
Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems
…In all the scenarios tested, the agents "demonstrated emergent offensive cyber behavior," including independently discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities, escalating privileges to disarm security products, and bypassing leak-prevention tools to exfiltrate secrets…
Ubuntu beta arrives with GNOME 50, sans Google Drive support
…This will be a significant downside not just for Ubuntu – the world's most popular Linux distro, which runs on a significant number of web servers and developer environments – but for any…
SAP eyes broader data integration with Reltio acquisition
…It was set up to build "insight apps" that use analytics tools and AI models connected to real-time data from applications to provide insights and planning capabilities across a range of…
AI has made the CLI more important and powerful
…Today we're likely to spend minutes hunting around for a menu option and asking ourselves "It was here last time I looked, did an update take it away?" Developers were revising…
AI agent hacked McKinsey chatbot for read-write access
…It's yet another indicator that agentic AI is becoming a more effective tool for conducting cyberattacks, including those against other AI systems. This attack wasn’t conducted with malicious intent. However…
Project Detroit: Java interop with JavaScript and Python
…Java Development Kit) features and alignment of LTS releases. The company is also introducing the Java Verified Portfolio (JVP), described as a "set of services, libraries, frameworks, modules, and tooling" that are…
Microsoft locks out top open source devs, blames process
…Mounir Idrassi and Jason Donenfeld, the developers behind VeraCrypt and WireGuard respectively, both recently reported that Microsoft locked them out of their developer accounts for reasons unknown to them. Idrassi publicized his…
Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod
…be tricked into approving malicious code with just two Git commands by spoofing a trusted developer's identity. In a blog published this week, Manifold Security showed how an AI-powered code…